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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "ribadu emir" <ribaduemir0010@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:04:15 +0000
Subject: Hello...I Need An Urgent Response From You,
Hello...I Need An Urgent Response From You,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou .I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may
be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten
million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 1998 in
a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and other officials in
my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin(We want to present you as his business
associate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner .We agree that 30% of this money will be for you
as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 %
will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be
for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore
to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged,
you must apply first to the
bank as next of kin of the deceased customer. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that
you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have
been made for the transfer.
I would want you to respond to my email immediately you read it for more
details.
Hoping to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Ribadu Emir
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa.
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